BONN: UNVNews starts with a "Thank You!" from the editorial team to all the UN Volunteers who contribute with personal accounts of their experiences, with articles and photos, thus enabling us to keep you abreast of new developments. Read

Organising and observing elections and supporting humanitarian relief operations have been key areas of work for UN Volunteers since the early 1990s. Thousands of professionals have since been recruited by the Bonn-based UNV programme to help in elections in Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa, Haiti, Liberia, the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Bosnia. Read

BONN: UNV colleagues from around the world converged on Bad Honnef, Germany, for a week-long Global Workshop in late May that not only brought together headquarters staff, Programme Officers and field Administrative Assistants for the first time but also secured recognition for UNV's role in development. Read

Bonn, Germany: Thanks to an initiative employed by UNV and UNDP in Nicaragua, 50 young Nicaraguan students have traded classrooms for the field to help with the reconstruction of their country in the aftermath of hurricane Mitch. They have been part of a special brigade formed to support the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project, aimed at addressing the country’s dire needs after this devastating natural disaster. Read

BONN: Planning and organizing of the first Global Workshop of UN Volunteers in 1999. Read

BONN: German tennis player Michael Stich and his wife, actress Jessica Stockmann, visited Zimbabwe as Honorary United Nations Volunteers to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. Read

Kasama, Zambia: In Zambia, people with HIV/AIDS receive home-based care and support  from a mission hospital in Chilonga. A diary by UNV Regina Tibenderama. Read

Bonn, Germany: "The training allows us to learn about western theories of journalism," says Mr. Nyamjav, editor of the Erkh Choloo (Freedom) newspaper. A UNDP project in Mongolia has brought journalists from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital, to run an investigative journalist training programme for their colleagues in the rural community of Moron. Read

Bonn, Germany: Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Over the past 25 years, more than 13,000 people have been killed by such disasters. The Australian Kester Scandrett, a sea dyke engineer on a UNDP project and working in conjunction with two larger World Food Programme (WFP) projects, co-ordinated much-needed technical assistance for Vietnamese engineers and laboratory technicians to train them in advanced methods and international standards for quality control management. Read

Bonn, Germany: Zingwangwa is a densely populated suburb of Blantyre in Malawi – until recently without a meeting place or recreational facilities young people (some 64% of the population) could call their own. Then UNICEF, in co-operation with the government’s Youth Department, stepped in with its "Youth Participation Programme." Read

BONN: IYV 2001 is about enhancing the networking, facilitation, promotion and recognition of volunteers and volunteer efforts. To help attain these goals, Team IYV at UNV headquarters is working to supply volunteers with some tools that could be used to make IYV 2001 happen in their communities. Read